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16. MYBMELEON EXPERTUS. 



Testaceus ; vertex piceo bimaculatus ; antennae picece, basi ferru- 

 ginece ; thorax piceo vittatus ; abdomen fcemince apicem versus 

 piceum ; tarsi picei ; alee limpidce^ subampla, apice vix angu- 

 lat<e, fusco maculata, antica fasciis duabus apicalibus connexis 

 fuscis, posticce semifasciatce. 



Testaceous, rather stout, clothed with whitish hairs: head 

 pitchy about the hase of the antennae and with two pitchy spots on 

 the vertex : palpi testaceous : antennas pitchy, ferruginous towards 

 the base : thorax with a slight pitchy stripe : prothorax a little nar- 

 rower in front; its breadth more than twice its length : abdomen of 

 the female pitchy towards the tip, shorter than of the male : appen- 

 dages of the male curved, armed with black spines : legs testaceous, 

 stout ; tarsi pitchy ; spurs pitchy, as long as the three first joints of 

 the tarsi: wings limpid, moderately long and broad, indistinctly 

 angular at the tips ; stigma very indistinct, hardly coloured : veins 

 whitish, except in the brown parts, whose areolets are here and there 

 paler ; subcostal areolets simple, with a few forked veins near the 

 stigma ; a row of subquadrate brown spots along the subcosta : fore- 

 wings with numerous brown dots except near the fore border and at 

 the tips ; three larger brown spots along the fore part of the disk, 

 first often divided, second short, third long and forming a short 

 band ; two brown bands at the tip, first zigzag, united at each end 

 to the second : hind-wings a little shorter and narrower than the 

 fore-wings; two rows of brown spots along the hind border, the 

 inner one imperfect ; four brown spots in the disk, the first half the 

 size of the second, the third forming with the fourth an interrupted 

 curved band, two brown spots beyond these, connected with the 

 brown at the tips and occasionally with each other, and thus includ- 

 ing a limpid spot. Length of the body 19 20 lines; of the wings 

 4250 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 

 b. ? 



17. MYBMELEON RADIATUS. 



Flavescens ; vertex fusco fasciatus ; thorax vitta dorsali maculisque 

 nigris ; abdomen tcstaceum, apice nigro vittatum ; tarsi rufo- 

 fusci ; alee subflavescentes, fusco strigatis. 



Palpares radiatus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 369, 4, pi. 11, f. 1. 

 Senegal. 



